Re: modifyTimestamp resolution

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Howard Chu wrote:
> In preparation for the upcoming syncrepl changes, I've updated liblutil 
> to generate CSNs with microseconds in the timestamp.
>
> Currently slapd copies the entryCSN timestamp to the createTimestamp and 
> modifyTimestamp attributes when generating these attributes. Anyone have 
> any thoughts on whether it would be a too-surprising change for these 
> attributes to now have higher resolution? Should we keep truncating them 
> to 1-second resolution?

Maybe we should carefully check that appropriately sized buffers are 
used everywhere in the code, to avoid surprises...  this could be a good 
chance to make sure generalizedTime is handled in exactly one place 
(which could already be, didn't check recently).

p.